Dr. Syed Manzur Quader

Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of Finance and Economics

Dr. Manzur Quader joined Chittagong Independent University as an assistant professor in Economics in 2013 after completing his PhD from the University of Sheffield, UK. He was awarded the prestigious University of Sheffield PhD studentship to work on his thesis titled “Corporate Efficiency, Financial Constraints and the Role of Internal Finance: A Study on Capital Market Imperfection”. Earlier, Dr. Quader graduated in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 2003 with first class honors and gained his MSc in Financial and Business Economics with distinction from the University of Essex, UK in 2005. He was then appointed as a lecturer in Economics at Independent University, Bangladesh where he served for 4 years before leaving for his doctorate in 2009. Dr. Quader’s primary research interest lies in the financial and industrial economics and related issues associated with corporate efficiency, investment and growth. He has published number of scholarly articles in international journals and attended many seminars, workshops and conferences organized by the like of Institute for Fiscal Studies, Economics Network of the Higher Education Academy, UK etc. He is a life member of Bangladesh Economic Association, a Paul Harris Fellow and an active Rotarian

PhD in Economics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, (2009-2013)

MSc in Financial and Business Economics, University of Essex, United Kingdom, (2003-2004)

Quader, S. M. (2017). Differential effect of liquidity constraints on firm growth. Review of Financial Economics, 32, 20-29. [Published for the University of New Orleans by Elsevier, Indexed in Scopus]